Paper-clip.



VV. CARES.

PAPER CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2, 1910.

f w A M JAMES OARBS, F DENVER, COLORADG, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF T0R-YIVIOND L. SSSE, 0F DENVER, COLORABG.

PAlPER-CLP.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Fatented Feb. 11,1913.

Aimplication filed .Tune 2, 1910. Serial No. 564,622.

To all iii/tom 'z' may confer/n Be it known that l, Winnaar Canine,citizen ot the United States, residing at Denver., in the county ot' Denand State of olorado7 have invented certain and useful improvements inTaper-- Clips, of which the following is a spr-f'ilieation.

This invention relates to paper fasteners,

and more particularly to that type ot fas tener known as tlie paperclip, and bas tor its object to provide a. paper clip which may be madeof a single length of wire` and which will have especial featuresl ot'advantage.

l narticular advantage of this present e tira it can be engaged with apaper or s papers from either end ot the clip, time materiallyfacilitating its use, and a in theft' advantage lies in the tact thatnot does tbe clip engage with the paper against the surfaces off thelont it also acrimpine action lille paper to further retard accidentalisengi ement oi the clip. v p

.in ie drawings forming a portion of tliis peeiiication and in whichlike. numerals or eterenee indicate siniila parte in tlie several'rieiria-lijenre l is au elevational view or tlie clin. 2 sliows themanner of erf tl'ieelip at one end upon a paper.' rig, 3 snows themanner ot engaging tlie oppor- Le end of tlie elip upon a paper. llig,is an edue View allowing' the Crimping `grip of tlie fastener upon theIpaper, the clip being engaged wit-li the paper slionn in Figz 3.

Referring now to the drawings, the presn entitastener is termed oi' asingle length bent at a sl'iarp angle at I:ente as shown at 5, tbeportions directly adjacent to this angle, indicated at. il; beingdivergent as shown. :it a point wl'iieli is to be one end oftliiefastener, and thus spaced a dstance from tlie angle equal to tliedesiretl length of the fastener, tbe portions il are bent fnitwardljyTin elinement with eaef'n other as sliown at "l, these 'portions 'Ybeingy elatively short, and, beyond them, the tw ertions of the wire arebent at right angles again as shown at and are continued in tlie sainegeneral direction as the portions 6,- to points in alinenienttransrersely of the fastener with tlie angle 5, when the two portions ofthe wire are bent inwardly as shown att), in alinement with each other,to points in relatively close relation to the angle 5, where the twoportions of tlie wire are again bent at. right angles to extend betweenthe portions S, as shown at l0, and to extend over the diagonal portion6. At the extremities of these portions l0, the wire is bent out--wardly and curved to forni a pair of terminal eyes 1l. and these eyesare given a turn to twist the portions l0 and throw the eyes at. anangle to each other and out of the plane oil the remainder of thefastener, to direct the mutually adjacent edge portions et tlie eyesbetween tlie divergent por.

tions (l, tlnis eansing' the eyes to intersect the plane of theseportions G.

F rom tlie drawings, it will be seen that the two portions l()considered together, co-

-act to torni. a tongue directed toward one end of tlie clip, and tliatthe two portions 6 wliicli are connected at the 'angle 5, coact to forma tongue turned in the opposite dir .ation The ends of these two tonguesare tree, and it. Awill be seen that the Clip may be engaged with apaper in either diret-tion, one of the tongues lying at earli side ofthe jclip. For 'facility in tlie Claim, the two porangles to the armsconnecting tliearms to side members and-formed e.with eyes, eonnamedverging .fums disposed between the Side members, the convex-ging; nunsbeing 30nnected together at their wnvrueni; ends at a peint between theattached ends the insb yizu'mS, and members, mnnectng the divergent endsof the converging umn@A with the sde members, hereby papers en beinselled between the gripping arms nml uenverging arms from eithelhendof the cl'pvto the attached ends of the :1r-ms. In testimony whereof afxmy signature,

n presence of Jmio Witnesses.

WILLIAM JAMES CAR-B18 Vinesses J. M. KNOWLCES, L. Gf. CUMMINS.

